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The 'Real Salt Lake Stadium' is a soccer-specific stadium currently being constructed in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy, built specifically for the local Major League Soccer team Real Salt Lake. The stadium symbolically broke ground on August 12, 2006. Included in the ceremony were members of Real Madrid. Funding plans for the stadium were rejected twice before a revised proposal was introduced the day before Real Salt Lake owner Dave Checketts' self-imposed deadline on obtaining funding for a new stadium or selling the team. The stadium is expected to hold around 20,000 people.
The financing plan for the stadium collapsed between January 26 and 29, 2007 after the county's Debt Review Committee voted to oppose the stadium plan as not viable. Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon was obliged to agree as was the Utah House Speaker Greg Curtis.
However, a new stadium proposal was made on February 2, which would divert 15 percent, roughly $2 million a year, of the county's hotel taxes to the stadium project beginning in July until 2017. [1] The bill was passed by the State Senate, and later the assembly. Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. signed the bill on February 9, 2007. [2] [3]
★ Stadium Website
★ MLS article on groundbreaking, August 12, 2006
★ Salt Lake Tribune article on the groundbreaking, August 12, 2006
The 'Real Salt Lake Stadium' is a soccer-specific stadium currently being constructed in the Salt Lake City suburb of Sandy, built specifically for the local Major League Soccer team Real Salt Lake. The stadium symbolically broke ground on August 12, 2006. Included in the ceremony were members of Real Madrid. Funding plans for the stadium were rejected twice before a revised proposal was introduced the day before Real Salt Lake owner Dave Checketts' self-imposed deadline on obtaining funding for a new stadium or selling the team. The stadium is expected to hold around 20,000 people.
The financing plan for the stadium collapsed between January 26 and 29, 2007 after the county's Debt Review Committee voted to oppose the stadium plan as not viable. Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon was obliged to agree as was the Utah House Speaker Greg Curtis.
However, a new stadium proposal was made on February 2, which would divert 15 percent, roughly $2 million a year, of the county's hotel taxes to the stadium project beginning in July until 2017. [1] The bill was passed by the State Senate, and later the assembly. Governor Jon Huntsman, Jr. signed the bill on February 9, 2007. [2] [3]
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External links
★ Stadium Website
★ MLS article on groundbreaking, August 12, 2006
★ Salt Lake Tribune article on the groundbreaking, August 12, 2006
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